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August 08, 2025
PE Firm Peppertree Gets $300M Award In Telecoms Fight OK'd
A New York judge is enforcing a $300.74 million damages award issued to the minority shareholders of telecommunications infrastructure firm Continental Towers LATAM Holdings Ltd. in a bitter dispute over control of the company, saying the majority shareholders had "fallen far short" of showing it should be vacated.
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August 08, 2025
Ga. Lawyer Sanctioned For False Entry Of Appearance
A Georgia attorney was slapped with sanctions from a state court judge who found that the lawyer spent six months falsely claiming he represented a defendant in a loan default suit, even after the defendant's true counsel warned him that he was lying to the court.
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August 08, 2025
Judge Rebuts 'Intemperate' Language In 'It Ends With Us' Row
A New York federal judge on Friday warned all litigants in actress Blake Lively's defamation case against her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni not to use "intemperate" language and personal attacks in court filings.
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August 08, 2025
Judge Tosses $150M Royalties Suit Against SiriusXM
A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed a suit against SiriusXM from a nonprofit royalty collector alleging $150 million in unpaid royalties, saying the dispute cannot be litigated under a certain section of the Copyright Act.
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August 08, 2025
Fight Over Choice Of Arbitrator Lands In Mass. Court
A weekslong disagreement over whether JAMS or the American Arbitration Association will serve as arbitrator in a dispute between a North Carolina bank and an employee in Massachusetts ended up in the place both sides were trying to avoid: a state court in Massachusetts.
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August 08, 2025
New Jersey Litigation Highlights For The 1st Half Of 2025
More than halfway through 2025, the New Jersey legal community has seen the state lose its case against one of the most politically connected figures to never hold office, as well as the federal government dropping its case against two former technology executives accused of bribing foreign officials. Here are some of the biggest decisions and ongoing cases to watch for the rest of the year.
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August 08, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission target a British investor over a $10 million microcap fraud scheme, Merck Sharp & Dohme move against Halozyme Inc. following a recent clash over its patented cancer medicine, and Birmingham City Council sue a school minibus operator years after ending its contract over DBS check failures. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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August 07, 2025
Colo. Investor Claims It Was Cut From $132M Skyscraper Sale
A real estate investment firm that says it was wrongfully cut out of a $132 million purchase of a downtown Denver skyscraper at the eleventh hour sued the buyer, a private equity firm, in Colorado state court on Wednesday.
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August 07, 2025
NY AG, Ski Resort Square Up Over Resort Divestiture
A New York ski resort operator that bought a competing resort and shut it down must divest that resort to right the antitrust wrong a state judge found it had committed and restore competition to the market, the Empire State is arguing.
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August 07, 2025
9th Circ. Revives Homeowners' 'Reverse Mortgage Loan' Suit
A Ninth Circuit panel has revived a proposed class action against a company offering homeowners cash in exchange for a slice of their home equity, finding a Washington couple has shown their arrangement amounted to a reverse mortgage loan subject to special statutory requirements.
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August 07, 2025
Colo. Court Backs Landlord's Right To 'Fees On Fees'
In the first Colorado appellate decision to consider whether a prevailing party may recover attorney fees incurred to enforce a contractual fee-shifting provision, a state appellate panel ruled Thursday that a Denver coffee shop's landlord is entitled to an award of such fees.
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August 07, 2025
Amazon, DC AG Get Antitrust Trial Delayed To May 2027
The District of Columbia's antitrust suit accusing Amazon of not allowing sellers to offer their products for less on other platforms will not make it to trial until closer to mid-2027, after a D.C. judge agreed Wednesday to allow the parties to push back the original trial date by four months.
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August 07, 2025
'Cardiac Pack' IP Suit Is Decades Too Late, NC Judge Says
A North Carolina state court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by 12 members of North Carolina State University's 1983 "Cardiac Pack" basketball team alleging that the NCAA unduly profited from their name, image and likeness by rebroadcasting footage from their national championship run.
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August 07, 2025
Connecticut Litigation Highlights In The 1st Half Of 2025
Two separate royalty disputes — one $90 million, the other $4 million — involving two giants in the alcoholic beverages market are among the top corporate cases that crossed Connecticut court dockets in the first half of 2025.
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August 07, 2025
Vast Amazon Customer Class Greenlit In Price-Fixing Case
A Washington federal judge has certified a consumer class encompassing an estimated 288 million people who purchased goods on Amazon's marketplace since 2017, advancing a sweeping antitrust case accusing the e-commerce giant of inflating prices through its merchant policies.
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August 07, 2025
Anthem Seeks Exit From Lab's $3.8M Insurance Suit
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Connecticut again asked a federal judge to let it out of a lab's $3.8 million suit alleging the company failed to pay 3,000 insurance claims for medical tests, arguing that the lab's second amended complaint didn't make up for the deficiencies that got most of the first one dismissed.
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August 07, 2025
7th Circ. Backs $75M In Chicken Price-Fixing Settlements
The Seventh Circuit rejected an appeal from restaurants challenging $75 million in settlements inked in the broiler chicken price-fixing litigation with Koch Foods Inc. and House of Raeford Farms Inc., after finding an analysis of prices failed to show the deals were unreasonable.
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August 07, 2025
CoStar Asks Full 9th Circ. To Revisit Antitrust Ruling For Rival
Commercial real estate information company CoStar Group Inc. and a subsidiary are urging the Ninth Circuit to reconsider its ruling reviving antitrust counterclaims lodged by rival Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., which CoStar has accused in a suit of stealing property listing data and copyrighted photos.
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August 07, 2025
NC Biz Court Bulletin: Divorce Dust-Ups And Judicial Rebukes
Litigation in the North Carolina Business Court is heating up this summer with new complaints centered on fears a former state politician's divorce proceedings will impede his companies' operations and accusations that a climate technology company has failed to pay out a former engineer's ownership interest.
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August 06, 2025
Masimo Drops Founder Joe Kiani From 'Empty Voting' Suit
Masimo Corp. has agreed to free its founder, Joe Kiani, from the medical technology company's suit alleging he manipulated a shareholder vote through an "empty voting" scheme, pointing to "the interest of judicial efficiency and economy."
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August 06, 2025
Valve Won't Pay $21M Arb. Fee In Antitrust Fight, Gamers Say
About 15,000 users of Steam, one of the largest online sellers of video games, have accused the platform's operator, Valve, in a new proposed class action in Washington federal court of refusing to pay its nearly $21 million share in arbitration fees stemming from a series of individual antitrust disputes, in which consumers alleged the company inflated the price it charged for games.
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August 06, 2025
4th Circ. Revives Chance Of Class Cert. For Overdraft Suit
The Fourth Circuit has reversed a denial of class certification in a lawsuit against Michigan-based Independent Bank, finding that a South Carolina federal judge had improperly ruled that bank customer Jamila Grice couldn't represent a nationwide class and remanding the case for further proceedings.
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August 06, 2025
Accounting Firm Must Face Ex-Credit Union CEO's Firing Suit
The largest accounting firm in Connecticut, Whittlesey PC, must face the former CEO of Sound Federal Credit Union's claim that he was fired for following the firm's advice on when to calendar gains from a $1.2 million property sale, a Connecticut trial court judge has ruled.
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August 06, 2025
Presidio Petroleum Inks $660M SPAC Merger Deal
Fort Worth, Texas-based oil and gas operator Presidio Petroleum will go public through a merger with EQV Ventures Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by EQV Group.
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August 06, 2025
CORRECTED: NJ Diocese Drops Abuse Coverage Claims Against Insurer
A Garden State diocese has voluntarily dropped its claims against one of its insurers it accused of violating state law over the coverage of defense costs tied to child sex abuse lawsuits, according to a Monday order.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure
While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.
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Recent Decisions Caution Against Broad Indemnity Provisions
Two recent decisions in disparate jurisdictions are reminders that businesses and practitioners should be mindful of contractual indemnity rights and draft indemnity provisions that enhance the predictability of enforceability without being overly broad, says Gregory Jaske at Olshan Frome.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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Tips For US Investors Eyeing Middle East Data Centers
While Middle East data center investment presents a compelling opportunity in light of renewed U.S.-Gulf cooperation on artificial intelligence and critical technologies, these projects require a nuanced understanding of regional legal and regulatory regimes, says Haykel Hajjaji at Covington.
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4th Circ. Favors Plain Meaning In Bump-Up D&O Ruling
The Fourth Circuit's latest denial of indemnity coverage in Towers Watson v. National Union Fire Insurance and its previous ruling in this case lay out a pragmatic approach to bump-up provisions that avoids hypertechnical constructions to limit the effect of a policy's plain meaning, say attorneys at Kennedys.
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Series
Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion
In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.
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Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss
Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine
The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Series
Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator
Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.
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Business Court Bill Furthers Texas' Pro-Corporate Strategy
The Texas Legislature's recent bill to enhance corporate protections and expand access to the Texas Business Court by refining its jurisdictional standards is just the latest step in the state's playbook for becoming the new center of corporate America, say attorneys at Katten.
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Lively-Baldoni Saga Highlights Insurance Coverage Gaps
The ongoing legal dispute involving "It Ends With Us" co-stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively raises coverage questions across various insurance lines, showing that effective coordination between policies and a clear understanding of potential gaps are essential to minimizing unexpected exposures, says Katie Pope at Liberty Co.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Navigating Client Trauma
Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan.
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Opinion
4 Former Justices Would Likely Frown On Litigation Funding
As courts increasingly confront cases involving hidden litigation finance contracts, the jurisprudence of four former U.S. Supreme Court justices establishes a constitutional framework that risks erosion by undisclosed financial interests, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.
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State Law Challenges In Enforcing Arbitration Clauses
In recent cases, state courts in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey have considered or endorsed heightened standards for arbitration agreements, which can mean the difference between a bilateral arbitration and a full-blown class action in court, says Fabien Thayamballi at Shapiro Arato.